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Well now we know Julie is sticking around and Jesse has since been reinstated. It also looks like Baxter and Di have something going on which is probably a disappointment to anyone shipping him and Hilda.

Only 2 more installments to see what all has happened in the last month.

Hilda and Rico? I don’t know about that. Why is she looking at him? And is this timeline going to have a grown Julie but no baby Julie to produce her? I’d be okay with that, even though it’s an unlikely event even as time travel goes. It’d be a nice little counterpart to Will and his skull.

we will never see the original timeline that created the original General Maxma (was that her name?) anyway that being said i can’t help but wonder how Rikk and the others are enjoying there retirement.

In response to T’s post in the forum, which I cant respond directly to because
BALLS to registering to more forums:

It’s interesting that this Julie can never return to the world that spawned her, because it’s a neat little parallel with Maximilliana. Maxi was created to be the ultimate military commander, right before her world abolished war. That feeling of being left behind and useless are what drove her actions. Whatever Jesse raised Julie to be, let’s hope her training included the flexibility that Maxi didn’t get… because the world she was raised to survive in is gone forever. And Baby Julie (Julie Prime?) would certainly give her an ample opportunity to feel rejected.

Excellent callback to the training exercise with the new recruits when they first arrived. I approve.

Regarding the puzzle:

The first one is obvious: you write an S in front of the IX.
Second one, you flip it upside-down, and then draw a really thick horizontal line through what’s now the lower half of the XI. It’s now VI, underlined.
Third one, you write a number 6 after the X. It’s now 1X6, which multiplies out to 6.
Fourth one, you again write a number 6, but this time you do it with a line so thick that it covers up the entire IX. All that’s visible is the giant 6 you wrote.
Fifth one, you convert it from roman numeral IX to standard numeral 9, and then turn it upside-down. You didn’t need the line; draw it underneath as an underline.

I can’t come up with a sixth one. I had to use google for the fifth one.

@antiqueChairman, I do see the point, and Julie will probably have some trouble adjusting to a world where she’s no longer the supreme leader of humanity. But there are important differences between Julie and Maximillianna. It was being told she was obsolete that really drove Maxie over the edge: she needed new worlds to conquer, and her people were scrapping the defense force to which she’d dedicated her life. (To be fair, her people were being naive in thinking they’d never need soldiers again, as Maxie promptly proved by turning against them.)

It is highly unlikely that AEGIS, which faces global threats on a regular basis, will ever reach that same level of complacency.

Draw a thick white line over the X, obscuring it entirely; you then have “Vav,” the sixth letter in the Hebrew alphabet–which, in gematria, are used as numbers as well.

Rotate the IX 90 degrees to the left. Then take the SW-NE-aligned line of the X and position it facing upward but still slightly SSW-NNE, and on a path to be bisected by the other line of the X. You now have a crudely-stenciled 6.
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/ \
¯ (please note that I had to use two lines to illustrate the slant rather than one)

Take the IXes on each end of the top line, then position them in a line continuing upward from the two IXes on the left side of the remaining four:
IX
IX
IX IX

IX IX

… Another crude six.
(You can do the same thing by turning the board 90 degrees to the left then painting a thick white line through the IX on the bottom.)

Or simply rotate every one of the Xes a quarter-turn in either direction. You now have 1+1+1+1+1+1+. Take the vertical line from the last “+” and rotate it so it is sideways and parallel to the other. You now have 1+1+1+1+1+1= which is a single line of an equation making six.

Convince President Obama to issue an Executive Order containing the following line: “Henceforth in the United States of America, the Roman numeral IX shall represent the number 6.”

That’s six ways–so, in the words of Sam Byck (by way of Stephen Sondheim), “where’s my prize?”

Ok people are posting solutions here. So I’ll do mine.
Draw an “s” in front of IX top to bottom, right to left in pen.
Draw an “s” in front of IX bottom to top left to right in pencil.
Draw an “s” in front of IX in crayon while whistling a jaunty tune.
Draw an “s” in front of IX with finger paint acting like a monkey.
Carve an “s” in front of IX using a knife saying your best Ausie accent: “Now that’s a SIX!”
Make an “S” with a piece of string an tape it in front of IX.

By the rules this is using a single line and doing so six different ways. He never said six different solutions.